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With the gift-giving season only a few months away, jewelry making classes could be a solution as a personal and unique gesture.

Beth Gregory, a Livingston jewelry designer, has taught a number of classes in the area on how to make earrings, rings and pendants using what’s called precious metal clay.

The substance, Gregory explained, is clay containing fine silver particles, and it is worked in a manner very similar to regular clay. However, after it’s fired in the kiln, it comes out looking and feeling like metal.

Veteran’s Day came early this year when the area quilting guild gave five military service members quilts over the weekend.

Ladies’ sewing and quilting guilds, with members in Gallatin, Park and Sweetgrass counties, made a collaborative effort to create quilts celebrating service members of the five most recent U.S. conflicts: World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Desert Storm and Iraq/Afganistan war.

Yellowstone Gateway Museum has come up with a new way to get more out of the featured exhibits.

“History Quest: Look for Links” is an activity started in the last few months that involves looking around the museum for ways to link certain aspects of history with others through the use of worksheets.

Yellowstone Gateway Museum Registrar Karen Reinhart set this program up as way to get children that visit the museum more involved.

“I wanted them to feel like they were a part of the history,” Reinhart said.

There is a new fixture in downtown Livingston, allowing kids the opportunity to have their own space.

The Cool Cafe, located in the former home of Florence Furniture on Main Street, is an eatery and hangout spot for people younger than 18 years of age. The cafe is part of the larger organization — RISE — that provides after-school programs and job assistance.

Chantelle Plauche started the organization as a way for youngsters to have somewhere to go after school without too many adults.

For some it could take years to finish a sewing project, but for one 85-year-old Livingston resident, its just another day.

Gladys Jeuvan, who recently added tiny cross-stitches in a baby blanket she will take to the annual Pine Creek Church Harvest Sale in October, has other projects on the horizon, with no plans of stopping anytime soon.

Jeuvan said she started learning to cross stitch before she was 10 years old, explaining her mother insisted all of the girls in her family learn how to do it.